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Yenny Álvarez

Personal information
Birth name	Yenny Álvarez Caicedo
Citizenship	Colombian
Born	(1995-05-24) 24 May 1995 (age 29) Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Sport
Country	Colombia
Sport	Weightlifting
Weight class	59 kg
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Snatch: 105 kg (2024) Clean & jerk: 133 kg AM (2022) Total: 234 kg AM (2022)
Medal record Representing  Colombia Women's weightlifting Big (Total) Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 1 1 1 Junior World Championships 0 1 0 Youth World Championships 0 1 0 Pan American Games 1 0 0 Pan American Championships 3 0 0 South American Games 1 0 1 Total 6 3 2 Big and small medals Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Championships 2 2 4 Junior World Championships 1 1 1 Youth World Championships 1 2 0 Pan American Games 1 0 0 Pan American Championships 9 0 0 CAC Games 4 0 0 South American Games 1 0 1 Bolivarian Games 2 0 0 Total 21 5 6 World Championships 2022 Bogotá 59 kg 2021 Tashkent 59 kg 2024 Manama 59 kg Pan American Games 2023 Santiago 59 kg Pan American Championships 2016 Cartagena 58 kg 2021 Guayaquil 59 kg 2022 Bogotá 59 kg Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 Veracruz 58 kg S 2014 Veracruz 58 kg CJ 2023 San Salvador 59 kg S 2023 San Salvador 59 kg CJ South American Games 2022 Asunción 59 kg 2014 Santiago 58 kg Bolivarian Games 2022 Valledupar 59 kg S 2022 Valledupar 59 kg CJ Junior World Championships 2014 Kazan 58 kg Youth World Championships 2012 Košice 53 kg

Yenny Álvarez Caicedo (born 24 May 1995) is a Colombian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2021, she won the silver medal in her event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Career

Álvarez won two gold medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 South American Games held in Asunción, Paraguay.

Álvarez won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.

In August 2024, Álvarez competed in the women's 59 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. She lifted 105 kg in the Snatch sharing third provisional place but then failed three attempts in the Clean & Jerk.

Achievements

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Representing  Colombia
Olympic Games
2024	Paris, France	59 kg	101	103	105	3	130	132	132	—	—	—
World Championships
2014	Almaty, Kazakhstan	58 kg	95	100	103		118	122	125		225	4
2021	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	59 kg	95	99	101	4	123	123	127		226
2022	Bogotá, Colombia	59 kg	98	98	101	6	128	131	133 AM		234 AM
2023	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	59 kg	100	103	103	6	129	132	132	5	229	5
2024	Manama, Bahrain	59 kg
IWF World Cup
2024	Phuket, Thailand	59 kg	98	98	100	12	125	130	130	9	225	9
Pan American Games
2023	Santiago, Chile	59 kg	97	100	102	—	126	126	134	—	228
Pan American Championships
2016	Cartagena, Colombia	58 kg	95	98	100		118	120	124		224
2021	Guayaquil, Ecuador	59 kg	95	98	100		122	126	130		230
2022	Bogotá, Colombia	59 kg	97	100	102 AM		124	124	128		226
2024	Caracas, Venezuela	59 kg	96	100	—	5	—	—	—	—	—	—
Central American and Caribbean Games
2014	Veracruz, Mexico	58 kg	95	97	99		117	121	123		—	—
2023	San Salvador, El Salvador	59 kg	96	99	103		125	130	131		—	—
South American Games
2014	Santiago, Chile	58 kg	87	90	90	—	110	113	116	—	200
2022	Asunción, Paraguay	59 kg	90	94	96	—	120	124	—	—	220
Bolivarian Games
2022	Valledupar, Colombia	59 kg	95	98	—		120	125	—		—	—
Junior World Championships
2013	Lima, Peru	53 kg	80	83	86	4	100	105	106	4	183	4
2014	Kazan, Russia	58 kg	90	94	97		115	119	119		213
Youth World Championships
2012	Košice, Slovakia	53 kg	73	77	80		91	97	100		177

References

1. Oliver, Brian (8 December 2022). "Colombians go wild as Álvarez beats two Olympic champions at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
2. "2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). IWF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
3. Oliver, Brian (11 December 2021). "Olympic gold, Vogue front cover, and another world title for weightlifter Kuo". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
4. "2021 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
5. "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 Bolivarian Games. Archived from the original on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
6. "Weightlifting Medalists". 2022 South American Games. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
7. "Women's 59 kg Results" (PDF). 2023 Pan American Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
8. ^ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.

External links

• Yenny Álvarez at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Yenny Álvarez at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
• Yenny Álvarez at Olympics.com

• Living people
• 1995 births
• Colombian female weightlifters
• World Weightlifting Championships medalists
• Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
• Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in weightlifting
• Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia
• Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
• South American Games gold medalists for Colombia
• South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia
• South American Games medalists in weightlifting
• Competitors at the 2022 South American Games
• Weightlifters at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia
• Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting
• 21st-century Colombian sportswomen
• Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Colombia
• Bolivarian Games medalists in weightlifting
• Weightlifters at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic weightlifters for Colombia